A State of California PUC-certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) and SANDAG A&E Bench firm founded in 2004, Rocks Biological Consulting operates from Rialto Street in Ocean Beach under president Melanie Rocks and owner Jim Rocks. RBC shepherds infrastructure, military, tribal, and private development projects through CEQA and NEPA compliance alongside civil and environmental peers like Civil Consultants LLC, producing biological technical reports that meet U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, and Army Corps of Engineers processing standards. Protocol surveys covered by RBC biologists include western burrowing owl, Mojave fringe-toed lizard, arroyo toad, desert tortoise, nesting bird, and rare plant work across Southern California. Past project experience spans MCAS Miramar biological requirements and an Integrated Resources Management Plan for the Pala Band of Mission Indians, with habitat restoration fieldwork coordinated with architectural and land-use teams that can include firms like HGW Architecture. RBC also runs the Sensitive Butterflies of San Diego County training course in partnership with SoCal Environmental Resources Training (SERT) and entomologist David Faulkner. The firm's most complex engagements are wetland delineations and multi-species Section 7 and 2081 endangered species consultations where federal, state, and tribal regulators must all sign off before ground disturbance begins.